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Because why would a pro-Palestine person vote for the person who has aided the genocide against them and continues to vow further support for the regime responsible?
How is Kamala less likely to escalate it further when she has supported the actual ongoing genocide? What will Trump escalate it to? Double genocide? Either way I'm not voting for Trump so I don't have to agree with his policies. I'm just not going to let the Dems conduct Genocide and scare me into agreeance with them using the threat of Trump.
If you're talking about escalation with Iran, we have already been working with Israel for a "response" to Iran response and she has again supported Israels right to continue their provocations in the name of "defense".
Crazy stuff like genocide? Expanding the "war" in Gaza into Lebanon? Provoking Iran with a strike on their soil then planning "retaliation" for their retaliation?
Kamala is actively engaged in a genocide. There should be punishments for this. The least of which should be losing your role in any sort of elected office. A vote for Kamala is literally a vote saying that you are okay with genocide as long as it benefits you to do so.
Genuinely, have you read any of the man's comments? He is criticising the Biden administration for being too harsh on Israel. To quote him: "“From the start, Harris has worked to tie Israel’s hand behind its back, demanding an immediate ceasefire, always demanding ceasefire". However bad things currently are, Trump's openly-stated position on that horrific situation is that Israel needs to go in harder.
Okay? Do you usually treat what Trump says as gospel? ...Do you think she got a ceasefire or successfully restrained Israels genocidal ambitions so far?
Materially, what is the difference between them.
"Genocide but sad" vs "Genocide and happy", I'm not choosing Genocide period.
Things are genocide, Harris' openly stated positions are horrific and enabling of a genocide we have seen be carried out.
Kamala Harris is actively engaging in genocide and it's worked for over a year, you're engaging in hypotheticals on it getting worse based off Trump's words. Perhaps Trump's incompetence would even lead to a forced end to the genocide if we are engaging in hypotheticals, in fact, I'd wager thats much more likely than Harris suddenly switching from a genocider to a compassionate human being and ending it.
In so far as it being a reflection of his intentions when otherwise entirely plausible? Yeah, sure. This isn't him drawing on a hurricane map with a pen.
Fifty thousand dead Palestinians is fifty thousand too many - or however many the real number is by now - but there are two million Palestinians in Gaza, and three million in the West Bank. Despite how bad it already is, this can still get so, so much worse.
Your claim to not choose genocide is, in fact, a choice to let the rest of the country decide without your input. If Harris' lukewarm opposition saves literally any Palestinian lives whatsoever relative to the alternative, that's worth more than someone feeling smug about not voting. I don't know about you, but I think that the most ethical choice, if you are voting solely on the matter of Palestine, is whichever option is materially best for actual Palestinians even if that option is still horrible
Are you suggesting it is not reasonable to judge a politician based on the things they say?
But don't worry, because I'm also judging him on his actions when he was president last time. Like pardoning American war criminals, massively increasing the amount of drone strikes conducted, assassinating an Iranian general, recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, attempting to extort Ukraine for his own political gains, and actively backing the Saudi bombing campaign in Yemen. And as a reminder, even the Biden administration dropped support for that last one. He's as belligerent as any American president and no hypotheticals are needed to demonstrate that. So when he says he wants Israel to do more in Gaza? Yeah I consider that a genuine and meaningful threat to the millions of Palestinians that haven't been killed yet, and I will absolutely take Harris' nothing response over that.
So on what basis do you think that Trump is the preferable option?